More than 60 independent British music festivals have committed to ban single-use plastic from their sites by 2021.As a minimum, those festivals have committed to banning the use of plastic straws this year. It's hoped that this ban will extend to items such as plastic bottles and plastic food trays...

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The international forum and ceremony to award Sri Lanka's Cascaded Tank-Village System as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Site took place in Rome, Italy a short while ago (April 19). The system, known locally as the “Ellanga Gammana,” was recognised as one of the 1...

US President Donald Trump says that if his planned talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are not fruitful he will "walk out". At a joint news conference, he and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe said maximum pressure must be maintained on North Korea over nuclear disarmament. Abe implored the internati...

Japan’s most senior finance ministry bureaucrat has resigned over allegations of sexual misconduct, in what is being described as the country’s #MeToo moment. Junichi Fukuda resigned on Wednesday (April 18), but denies the allegations. Fukuda said he would quit after a weekly magazine published a...

Update... COLOMBO (News 1st) - Manager of the rubber factory arrested. Five people have died after falling into an ammonia tank at a rubber factory in the Balapitiya area in Horana, this afternoon (April 19). Police Media Spokesperson, SP Ruwan Gunasekara, said 15 others who attempted to ...